...political goals through instilling fear, intimidation, or coercion. It usually involves a criminal act, often symbolic in nature and intended to influence an audience beyond the immediate victims ; and (b) "international terrorism" is terrorism transcending national boundaries in the carrying out...

...political goals through instilling fear, intimidation, or coercion. It usually involves a criminal act, often symbolic in nature and intended to influence an audience beyond the immediate victims ; and (b) "international terrorism" transcends national boundaries in the carrying out of the act,...

...the threat of such violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature. Terrorism involves a criminal act that is often symbolic...intended to influence an audience beyond the immediate victims."2 On the political level, the US Department of State acknowledges that there is a broad range...

...government's definition: "the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature. This...through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear." 1 Few people other than anarchists and military historians seem willing to acknowledge the truth about...

...often political or ideological in nature, by intimidation or coercion." Terrorism is a criminal act, often symbolic in nature and intended to influence an audience beyond the immediate victims. An example of this is the statement made by Abu Nidal, in which he stated that "you kill one hundred...

...terrorism defines it as "the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature. This...through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear." Still simpler is the characterization in a Pentagon-commissioned study by noted terrorologist Robert...

...governments or societies, often for political or ideological purposes."53 7. US Army (1983): ". . . the calculated use of violence or the threat of violence...intended to influence an audience beyond the immediate victims."54 [This definition was scheduled to be replaced in 1986 by the following one:] 8. US Department...

...defines terrorism as 'the calculated use of violence or threat of violence to attain goals that are political, religious or ideological in nature. This...through intimidation, coercion or instilling fear"' (Chomsky 1989a:270). Examples of misused concepts can be readily multiplied, but since the concern...

...definitions of terrorism in "official US documents: 'the calculated use of violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature. This...through intimidation, coercion, or instilling fear'" (Chomsky 2001, 90). However, as Chomsky points out, this appropriate meaning of the term has been displaced...

...the threat of such violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological in nature. Terrorism involves a criminal act that is often symbolic...intended to influence an audience beyond the immediate victims."30 On the political level, the US Department of State acknowledges that there is a broad range...